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09-21-2009, 04:00 PM
Thousands of volunteers took part in a massive beach clean-up day on Saturday organized by the Vida Azul Foundation and sponsored by Coca-Cola and Propagas on International Coastal Clean-up Day. The official launch was held on Boca Chica Beach, attended by the Minister of the Environment Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal and other officials.
At beaches all around the country, from Monte Cristi to Barahona and Punta Cana to Puerto Plata thousands of people, mainly children and youngsters, got to work and collected refuse from the beaches.
According to Fernandez Mirabal, over the last year more than 17,000 tons of refuse, mostly plastic, has been cleared from the nation's beach areas. During this year's event, sponsor companies representatives distributed large plastic bags to volunteers who eagerly set out to fill them up. The president of the Propagas Foundation told reporters that while it is important to clean the beaches, it is even "more important to teach beachgoers not to throw away their waste and to provide them with places where they can put it."
See http://www.vidaazul.org/
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At beaches all around the country, from Monte Cristi to Barahona and Punta Cana to Puerto Plata thousands of people, mainly children and youngsters, got to work and collected refuse from the beaches.
According to Fernandez Mirabal, over the last year more than 17,000 tons of refuse, mostly plastic, has been cleared from the nation's beach areas. During this year's event, sponsor companies representatives distributed large plastic bags to volunteers who eagerly set out to fill them up. The president of the Propagas Foundation told reporters that while it is important to clean the beaches, it is even "more important to teach beachgoers not to throw away their waste and to provide them with places where they can put it."
See http://www.vidaazul.org/
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)